"Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters."
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"Time does us violence; it is the only violence."
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"You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead."
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"You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry."
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"I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War."
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"The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure."
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"Non-violence is the article of faith."
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"Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women."
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"Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice."
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"Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you."
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"Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for."
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"Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan."
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"A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses."
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"In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment."
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"The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently."
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"The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it."
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"Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties."
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"Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence."
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"He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence"
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"I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept."
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